Chapter 7

I don't own any Sly Cooper or any of the rip-offs I do. Except...

Sly and his friends had been handcuffed to a pipe in their orphanage for roughly 30 minutes.

"I'm hungry.",Murray said, as his stomach growled.

"You're always hungry." Sly said, annoyed.

"No, I wasn't a minute ago."

"Yeah, you were."

"Well, whatever. I'm going to try to reach for the pool again. I got pretty close last time." Murray said, reaching for the pool.

"Murray, you're not going to get there. Now what are we going to do about the time?" Bentley questioned.

"How 'bout the pool lessons?" Murray said, not getting off the pool subject. "That was pretty interesting."

"That was a low point in my memory." Bentley groaned.

Every child at the Happy Camper had to take mandatory swimming lessons because the orphanage was next to a river. All the kids had to learn the rules and how to swim.Ms.Puffin had rented out a cheap life-guard from the city pool to teach the children.Sly, Murray ,Bentley and the rest of the children were waiting to swim as the custodians filled up the pool with water by using the fire hydrants.

"Sly,"Bentley whispered."I'm afraid...I don't know how to swim."

"It's okay,pal."Sly assured him."I-I don't know how to either."

The custodians finished filling up the pool with garden hoses.

"Okay kids.",one of the custoidians."It's ready for ya'll."

None of the kids even ran in.

"Fine.",the custodian said."Be jerks.I hate this place." He ran away,crying.

"Uh, let's go in I guess." Murray said. He ran up to the pool, and stuck one toe in. He ran away and sat down in one of the corners in a fetal position."So..cold..."Murray whispered.

"I bet I'm a natural born swimmer," Sly said. "In fact, I bet I'll be the best in the class." The rest of the kids jumped into the shallow end, which was about 3 ft. deep. Sly jumped in.

"Bentley! Help! I-I can't swim! What do I do?" Sly said, as the other kids waded to the deep end.Sly stood up."Oh...shut up.",he said to no one in particular.

A otter walked up to the kids.

"Okay,children.",he said."My name is Ron Romner.But you all WILL call me Mr.Romner,okay?." The kids stared at him.

"Okay,today I'm teach you all to swim,okay.",Mr. Romner said."N-n-n-now swimming isn't all th-th-th-that hard,okay.I will n-n-n-n-now give ya'll a d-d-d-demonstration of a simple swim called th-th-th-the doggy paddle,okay." A kid raised his hand.

"You just said 'okay' 6 times.",the kid said.

"I know I say okay a lot!",Mr.Romner yelled."HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT...okay."

The kids burst into laughter.

"Okay, back t-t-to business, the dog paddle, okay." Mr. Romner said. He jumped into the pool. He began demonstrating the dog paddle. None of the kids paid him any attention.

"F-f-f-fine if you don't want to learn okay, I don't want to teach, okay." Mr. Romner said, then got out of the pool. "You kids c-c-can teach yourselves, okay. Now where a-a-are m-m-m-m-m-my waterproof playing cards, okay."

Sly started to have a splash war with the other kids.They played for about 5 minutes until Sly realized Bentley was gone. He searched the pool. When he saw him, he was shocked to find Bentley on top of the high dive being cornered by two kids; a beaver and a squirrel.

"Heh heh heh, uh... you better like, jump, or something." the buck-toothed-beaver with braces said.

"Yeah yeah YEAH! That would be cool." The squirrel snickered.

"How about I perform this stunt at a more suitable time." Bentley suggested. He began to sweat like he usually did when he was nervous.

"Uhhh," The squirrel said. "You better do it.Heh-heh-heh!"

"Yeah, don't make me smack you. Uh-huh huh huh huh." The beaver demanded.

"Do it, Bernard, DO IT!" The squirrel said."Smack him!Yeah,yeah. SMACK HIM!"

Bernard pulled out a stick and began poking Bentley. Bentley slowly walked to the edge of the board.

"This is gonna rule, dude." Bernard said. "Do you got a stick, Frankie? Maybe you could poke him, too."

"Uhhh.." Frankie said, looking through the pockets in his swimming trunks. Then Sly shoved him off of the board.

"AAAAAAHHHH!" Frankie screamed as he fell. He made a small splash.

"That was cool. Wait a second. You killed him." Bernard said. He shoved Sly off the diving board.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Sly screamed as he fell into the pool.

"Heh heh heh heh heh. I- AHH!" he screamed as Bentley rammed into him. They both fell off the diving board. None of the kids noticed that Bentley and Sly were drowning.

"That ruled." Bernard said as he climbed out of the pool.

"Heh heh heh, yeah." Frankie said as he walked up to his friend.

"Okay, what's g-g-going on, okay?" Mr. Romner asked.

"Me and Bernard were on the diving board, and-"

"Hey! Those kids are drowning!" Romner interupted, as he dove into the pool. He pulled out Sly and Bentley and threw them out of the pool.

"SOMEONE GIVE THESE KIDS CPR!" he yelled as he looked at Frankie and Bernard.

"Uhhhh,we're not going to do it." Bernard said.

"Yeah yeah,why are you looking at us?",Frankie asked.

"Then I'll have to do it myself.",Romner said.He put his hands on Sly and Bentley's chests and started to do push-ups.He did this for about 5 minutes.Then Sly and Bentley woke up at the same time and coughed up water.

"I couldn't breathe out of my nose for 1 week."Bentley said.

"That was nice and everything but what does that story have to do with breaking these handcuffs?" Sly asked as he looked out the window.

"Oh yeah,"Bentley said as he pulled out a laser pen."With my new laser pen I can cut through metal like cheese."

He cut Sly's,Murray's and his own handcuffs with the laser.

"Let's get this place not torn down!." Murray said triumphantly.